Hosting Description

If you would like to create a site and render it visible to the whole world, it must be hosted on a server. The name of this service is hosting.

Host your web site at home or somewhere else

You could host your website on your own personal personal computer at home or at work, on a personal computer which belongs to a comrade of yours, and so on. If it is a website for testing purposes, there would be no real need for you to find a more dependable web hosting solution than that. If you would like to set up a real website, though, which will be visible to plenty of people and you desire to make it dependable, you will also require a reliable web hosting server on which you will host it.

Why do you require a web server for your web site?

When you own a site, it is hosted on a physical server. That physical server has its own physical address known also as IP address. Writing the Internet Protocol address of the physical server in your browser, though, is not the best and most suitable means to access a web site. That is how and why domain names came into existence and why you are in need of one for your site. Thus, to launch your site, you require your own domain and a hosting server to host your website on.

Hosting your site yourself

If you are an IT professional and know how to work with a hosting server, you can have a hosting server of your own and host your site on it. This will allow you to exercise complete control over the machine, to implement server configuration modifications and to apply software updates yourself rather than having to rely on the datacenter staff. The disadvantage, though, is that you will need to ensure the uptime of your web site and to deal with all server maintenance tasks yourself. If you are using a licensed Operating System, you will also need to pay for the license, which is normally more expensive if bought for a whole physical server.

Using a hosting services provider

If you don't want to deal with server maintenance duties, the most reasonable step to take is to register an account with a web hosting company. These are firms that offer clients powerful hosting servers with different hardware configurations in exchange for a given fee. The web hosting servers are stored in datacenter facilities with special cooling and backup power supply systems to guarantee continuous Internet connection.

Varieties of hosting services

The web is a bottomless sea and there are a lot of providers delivering different hosting services to the multitude of website proprietors out there. The web hosting services vary from free web hosting services, where you can host simple, HTML-based websites, to expensive dedicated hosting services that can drain your monthly budget. So, what hosting type meets your demands?

If you have a small or mid-size web page that has several hundred viewers max, you could safely utilize a shared web hosting solution. Shared web hosting suggests that many web hosting user accounts and websites are accommodated on the same server, thus curtailing the price of the service. Shared accounts normally include CPU, memory, web traffic and web server storage space usage quotas to make sure that the web sites hosted on the server do not meddle with each other and do not utilize more system resources than they are allocated.

If your site is larger, you should select a VPS hosting solution, which is the middle ground between the shared hosting solution and the dedicated hosting solution. VPS stands for Virtual Private Server. It offers root access, which enables you to implement server configuration modifications - something that would be inconceivable on a shared web hosting server. The VPSs also offer burstable RAM memory options. Separate RAM and central processing unit shares are allotted to each individual virtual private web hosting server, without anyone else utilizing them. Typically there are other VPSs aside from yours that use the resources of the physical server, which could at times affect the overall performance, but in the majority of circumstances it is not a problem. Should the resources of the virtual hosting server, though, be insufficient for your needs, it is plainly time to obtain a dedicated hosting web server.

The dedicated servers is a physical machine that you hire, which is utilized only by you for your very own web site needs. Nobody else uses its system resources and you are granted root privileges, can select a hardware configuration in advance, add upgrades later on and add RAM or disk drives. Unlike with the VPSs where virtualization is mostly at the OS level and all virtual containers share a single kernel, with a dedicated web server you can update the kernel of the OS (usually Linux-based) too.

Choose your web hosting distributor

If you have an idea of what your site is going to include, or if you have just a loose plan that has not completely evolved yet, your initial step towards the creation of your site should be to choose a web hosting accounts provider. The most reasonable step to take is to discover a hosting distributor that delivers a large range of website hosting solutions so that you do not need to switch web hosting service providers in case you first make use of a shared website hosting solution and then outgrow the shared hosting resources and have to upgrade to a virtual private web hosting server solution or a dedicated web server. We, for example, supply moderately priced shared website hosting packages, modestly priced OpenVZ and Virtuozzo-based private virtual web server plans, semi-dedicated servers with their own web hosting Control Panel user interface and even dedicated hosting web servers. We also offer free-of-cost bounties - the shared web hosting affordable domain if they are paid for on an annual basis, the more advanced virtual web server hosting plans and dedicated web hosting servers include a free-of-charge domain name reseller account and billing software in case you wish to use them for reselling purposes. Throw in the exceptional 24x7 customer support service and you have all you would normally need. You could, doubtlessly, discover other hosting suppliers depending on what exactly you are looking for, by carrying out an online search or by checking different hosting reviews online. The smartest option, however, is a web hosting provider that is also a domain name registrar and has web servers in more than one country - both prerequisites satisfied by us. We have hosting servers in North America, in Great Britain and in Australia, and offer many domain name extensions for registration.